Pavillon de la Reine & Spa, Place des Vosges

A recent YouTube video from the Frenchies reminded me of a pinnacle travel experience I had at La Pavillon de La Reine. To the entirely of the team - Bravo. After an abruptly canceled flight, a last minute train booking, a train delay, we ended up on a late night eurostar into Paris about to miss our second train and essentially stranded for the night. Whilst on the last 20 minute of our rather awful marathon travel day, Le Pavillon was arrange simply due to proximity and ease. A driver was waiting at top of the escalator with our name. Under terrible weather (storm that evening) he took our luggage in hand and guided us under umbrella to a black sedan and quick ride to my very first stay at Le Pavillon. Check in was quiet and elegant, the courtyard garden environment was exactly what we didn't know we needed after the day. Upstairs we were led to a most cozy and subtle yet luxurious suite with a welcome handwritten note, fruit platter and bottle of wine. All of this, within 1 hour of booking the hotel. My husband and I had dinner downstairs next to the bar. It was a most excellent meal reminding me how pleasant it is to hear a relentless rain outside while a fireplace sat next to our left. The honor bar was a previously unknown value add. Every hotel can have a popular bar with all the mixology but this small selection and well selected wines (with me jotting down our name and room number) makes the entire experience of "having a drink after dinner" so much more relaxing. I even helped a fellow guest (also stranded due to weather) open the bottle of champagne. The morning breakfast needs no accolade - best thick cut, flawlessly delicate cured salmon I've ever had. Whether for business, pleasure or cruising the kids in a first European experience - Paris is hectic and demanding. Le Pavillon manages to create an Oasis I never knew I needed. Weeks later we'd spend a week at our usual Le Bristol (always spot on). As my husband and I speak about our next time in Paris, we find ourselves wondering maybe we should stay in the Marais (for the first time ever) because we would love to experience Le Pavillon De La Reine once more. That one stormy night in Paris where we didn't even leave the hotel was one of our best memories of Paris.